Syllabus One. 



STUDIES IN. 



History, 

Literature 

and Expression, 
In the Grades. 



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By— — 

ELMA RUFF, 

Department of Literature and English, 

Colorado State Normal School. 



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Syllabus One. 



STUDIES IN 



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History, 

Literature 

Expression, 
In the Grades 



By ' 

ELMA RUFF, 

Department of Literature and English, 

Colorado State Normal School. 

1895=6. 



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Objects of the Course. 



1. To bring the pupil in touch with the best 
literature and the best books, and so direct his 
tastes and desires. 

2. To prepare the way by a vivid presenta- 
tion of great social and culture epochs, for a 
broader interpretation of life and a more special- 
ized work in higher grades. 

3. To aid the teacher in a proper selection of 
matter by grouping work around great epochs of 
social, political and religious development and 
expression. 



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Notes 



Almost the entire course has been actually 
given in this form with excellent prcatical results. 

The teacher should be able to talk simply and 
vividly and to read interpretatively, to adapt artis- 
tically and to expurgate so that the matter is in 
harmony with the best experiences and purest race 
instincts and thought life of the child. 

The entire course should be illuminated by 
pictures of the best chaste art, photographs of 
authors, statesmen, the homes and haunts of great 
men and historic places and cities. 

Primary and much of intermediate grade work 
is given in oral story form. Poetry should be in- 
terpreted and read by the teacher. 



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STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH 



First and Second Grades. 



Literature should be given with nature studies 
and seasons of the year. 

1. Nature myths concerning the winds, 

clouds, brooks, seasons, etc. 

2. Bible stories such as: 

The Boyhood of David and Jonathan. 

Story of Saul — Browning. 

Stories of Joseph, Moses, Ruth, Esther. 

3. Art forms growing out of children's obser- 

vations and nature studies. 

BOOKS. 

Stories from: 

Classic Stories for Little Ones — Mrs 

McMurray. 
In Story Land. — Elizabeth Harrison. 
Anderson. 
Grimm. 

Aesop's Fables. 
Parables from Nature. 
Kipling's Jungle Book. 
Uncle Remus — Harris. 
The Rhine Legends. 

Poems from: 

Mary I. Lovejoy's Nature in Verse. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 5 

Fields. 

Riley. 

Stevenson's Garden of Verse. 

Kindergarten Magazine. 

Public School Journal. 

Story of Tithonus. — Tennyson. See 

Guido Reni's Aurroa. 
The Story of Undine. 
Kingsley's Water Babies. 

Interpret and read: 

The Brook. — Tennyson. 

The Song of the Chattahoochee. See 
Lanier. 

The Snow Image. — Hawthorne. (Read 
Partly.) 

The Great Stone Face. — Hawthorne. 

(Read partly.) 

Pied Piper of Hameln. — Browning. 

The Story of Proserpine and the Sleep- 
ing Beauty compared. Read parts 
of Tennyson's Day Dream. 



Third and Fourth Grades. 



I. Stories of adventure : 
Robinson Crusoe. 

Gulliver's Adventures Among the Lilli- 
putians and Brobdingnags. 



6 STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 

The '1 empest. — Lamb's Tales. 

Story and adapted Readings from Paul 

Virginia. 
2. Stories in Home History. 

See Pioneer History Stories. — McMur- 

tay. 
Stories of the Mississippi Valley. — Mc- 

Murray. 
Stories from the Making of the Great 

West — Drake. 
Stories from Winning of the Great 

West. — Roosevelt. 
Story of Montezuma. 
Story of Pizarro. 

Stories from the Land of the Pueblos. 
Read Hiawatha. 

'^. Art 'forms from Literature and Indian 
Life. 



Fifth and Sixth Grades.* 



HEROIC AGE OF THE CHILD. 

Ancient and Modern Life. Outlined in Primary 

Form. 

ANCIENT LIFE. 

T. What our little Greek cousms lonor agfo 



'■''May be given to Third and Fourth Grades. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 7 

thought of trees, brooks and mountains. 
2. Their home by the sea. 
^. Ljlury OL Perseus) ^^. , , ^ 

c*-^^ , ^c T^^^„ ' King-slev s Greek Heroes (ex- 
Story of Jason . par^^ated.) 

Story of Theseus ) 

Story of Mid-Summer Night's Dream. - 
Lamb. 

4. They sail away to Troy. 

Stories and Readings from Chapman 

or Bryant, or De Garmo's Stories 

of Troy. 
Brookes' Homer. 
Story and readings from Tennyson's 

Oenone, 
Story and readings from Tennyson's 

Lotus Eaters. 

5. They build rude temples and work in 

bronze and gold, 
Lion-Gate of Mykenae. 
Harp of Cheiron. 
Shield of Achilles. 
Story of Orpheus. Mrs. Browning's 

musical instrument interpreted and 

read by teacher. 

6. The little Spartan boy Lycurgus, or Spar- 

tan ideals and manners and educa- 
tion. 

7. The little Athenian bov Cleisthenes, his 



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youth, and service to Athens; also 
Athenian ideals and education. 

8. Our little cousins resolve to take a holi- 
day. (Greek games.) 
Reading from Ben Hur and Eber's 
Serapis for description of chariot 
races. 

Q. How a great king came to take away the 
home of the Greeks. 
Readings from Abbott's Darius and 

Xerxes. 
Story of Aeschylus' Drama. The Per- 
sians. 

10. The hero of Marathon. — Miltiades. 

11. The hero of Thermopylae. — Leonidas. 

12. The hero of Salamas. — Themistocles. 

13. The City of Pericles. 

Greek art. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian 
Column, Greek Temple, Greek 
Vase. 

Greek ornament compared with Egyp- 
tian art. 

Stories of the adaptation of their art 
from nature forms, 

Story and readings from Pygmalion, a 
drama. 

Story and readings from the statue 
scene of the Hunter's Tale. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. Q 

14. The great poet teachers, artists and wise 

men of Greece. 
Story of Alcestes. — Euripides. 
Story of Antigone. — Sophocles. 
Compare with story of CordeHa.— 
Shakespeare. 

15. The quarrel of the two sister cities and 

its result. 
Destruction of Athens. 
Heroic devotion of Pericles. 
Memory gems from his great speech. 

16. The hero of Thebes. 

Story oi Epaminondas and his two great 

battles. 
Story of The Seven against Thebes. 

17. The long, weary march. 

Xenophon's Anabasis. 
Story of Callias, with readings from the 
same. 

18. The great Greek conqueror. 

Alexander the Great. See Abbott's 

biography for story. 
The great cities and centers of art and 

learning, Rhodes, Alexandria, etc. 
See Eber's Serapis; descriptions from 

Kingsley's Hypatia. 

IQ. How the Greeks' own cousin came to 
Athens, or the Roman Conquest. 



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20. His life among the hills. 

Glory of Athens. 

Other stories from the myth age of 
Rome. 

21. His notion of the beautiful. 

The Roman arch and aqueduct. 
Etruscan vase. 

22. How the city grew. 

Its temples, triumphal arches, mosaic 

work, baths, etc. 
Its great men. 
Story and reading of great part of Julius 

Caesar, from Shakespeare. 
Readings from Cicero's orations. 

(Handy classic translation.) 

23. News from the far east. 

Review of Bible stories emphasizing the 
boyhood of Christ. 



MODERN LIFE. 

Talk — What people long ago thought about 
the shape of the earth. 
Story of Marco Polo. 
Story of aViking bold. — Leif. 
Interpret and read Skeleton in Armor. 
— Longfellow. Portions of the Dis- 
covery of the North Cape. 

Story of a great Spanish hero, (Colum- 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. I I 

bus.) See Irving's Columb'is. 

3. Story of a brave monk. — Las Casas. 

Review stories from the land of the 
Pueblos. — Susan Wallace. 

Read selections adapted from Frank 
Cushing's Life Among the Zunis. — 
Century, August, December, 1882. 

Read Hiawatha. 

Story of Cooper's Last of the Mohicans 

4. Story of Captain John Smith. — See 

Eggleston's Pocahontas and Pow- 
hatan. 

5. A memorable voyage. 

The sail of the Mayflower. 
Fwo English heroes, Bradford and 
Winslow. 

6. They build a home. 

Compare with cities and palaces of Eu- 
rope and England at this time. 

Pictures on the art of Europe at this 
time. 

Readings and the story of Miles Stan- 
dish. — Longfellow. See Standishof 
Standish. — Jane Austen. 

Give pictures from Whittier's Snow- 
bound, 

Give pictures from Effingham Maynard's 
Historic Readings. 



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7. Our little English cousins' manners, cus- 

toms, education, etc. 
Read from Twice Told Tales. — Haw- 
thorne. 

8. Our little New York and Pennsylvania 

cousins, or Dutch manners and 

customs. 
Stories and readings from Irving's 

Knickerbocker History of N. Y. 
Lossing's Old Time Life in Albany. 
Paulding's Dutchman's Fireside. 

9. Our southern cousins. 

Stories of southern life from Cooke's 

Stories of the Old Dominion. 
Kennedy's Rob of the Bowl. 

10. Western life. 

Story of Kit Carson. 

Story of John C. Fremont. 

Santa Fe and Oregon Trail. See 

Parkman. 
Review Stories of Middle West. 

1 1. Stories of the great trading posts along 

the Ohio river. 
The jealousy of the French and English 

and its result. 
A farmer boy goes on a journey. 

Washington. 
Braddock's Story. 
Story of Franklin. 



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Story of Evangeline with memory gems 

12. Daniel Boone. 

Life on the New Frontier. See Park- 
man's Pontiac. 

13. How our cousins grew in their notions of 

the beautiful. 

Mount Vernon. 

The Old Baronial Hall. 

Dutch Colonial Home. 

Harvard college. 

Church and school buildings of the 
period. See Library American Lit- 
erature, III 137. See Thos. Jones' 
History of New York. 

14. Our cousins unite in a comm.on cause, or 

Washington once more. 
Story of the Revolution. 
Literature on the period. 
Paul Revere. 
Interpret an.d read 

Emerson's Concord Hymn. 

Holmes' Grandmother's Storj^ of the 

Battle of Bunker Hill. 
The ballads of the period. See old 

south leaflets and Library of 

American Literature. 
Bryant's Song of Marion's men. 
The Yankee Man of War. 
Tell several stories of Boys of '76. 



14 STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 

Read the Liberty Bell. 

Memory gems from speeches of the 

times; Otis, Patrick Henry, Adams, 

and others. 



MEDIAEVAL LIFE. (ABRIDGED.) 

Talks throughout the course on the art, also 
the political and social life. Specialized center: 
England. 

1. The boyhood of the Kelt, 

His island home, customs, habits and 
manners. 

xA.rt forms from Druid temples, his home, 
temples, instruments of war, etc. 

Story of his little sister Imogene, the 
peerless. See Girlhood of Shakes- 
peare's Heroines. — Mary D. Clark 
and Lamb. 

Review story of Cordelia for comparison 
of character. 

Read almost all of Merchant of Venice, 
or story of Portia. 

2. How the Romans came to England. 

Pictures of highways, temples, cities. 

Stories from King Arthur's round table. 

Interpret and read large portions of the 
Comning of Arthur, and The Pass- 
ing of Arthur — Tennyson, Lady of 
Shalott, and portions of Elaine. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. I 5 

3. How the Germans came over. 

Their home in the forest. 

Stories from the Niebelu.iger Lied. 
Sec William Morris' Story of Si- 
gurd. To be adapted. 

4. How the Vikings swooped down upon 

England. 

Their life on the ocean. 

Read large parts of Frithiof's Saga, by 
Anderson, Skeleton in Armor, and 
parts of Voyage to Vineland. — 
Lowell. 

5. Other literature illustrative of the social, 

religious and political life. 

Partly read, partly tell, Ivanhoe, Ouen- 
tin Durward, Anne of Geierstein. 

Tell Lessing's Nathan, the Wise. Read 
story of three rings from this. 

Stories from Don Quixote. 

Stories from Dante. 
Interpret and read 

The Legend Beautiful. — Longfellow. 

Large parts of The Lay of the Last 
Minstrel.— Scott. 

The Lady of the Lake. — Scott. 

Portions of the Golden Legend. 

Stories from Wagner's operas Lohen- 
grin and Parsifal. 

Read SirLaunfal. — Lowell. 



l6 STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 

The Plight of the Duchess. — Browning, 

Stor}^ of Pompilia. — Morris' Stories of 
Ten Poets. 

Hovey's Taliesin. 

Story and Selections from Pompeii. 

Story and Selections from Hypatia. 

Story of Schiller's drama, Maid of Or- 
leans. 

6. Talks on art somewhat outlined. 

Introduction of Christian notions. 
Catacombs of Rome. Adapt from Mar- 
ble Faun description of catacombs. 
Story of St. Cecelia. 

Interpret and read 

Alexander's P^east. — Dryden. 

Pictures of Raphael's St. Cecelia, at the 

Organ, and with Angel Choir. 
Michael Angelo's David. 
Church of St. Marks. 
Notre Dame. 
Cathedral of Amiens. 
Cathedral of Cologne. 
Carthusian Monastery. 
Castle of St Ulric. 
Cloth Hall of Ypres. 
The Louvre. 
The Escorial. 
White Hall Palace. 
Holyrood, etc. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. I 7 

Moorish architecture. See Irving's 
Alhambra. 

Note: Forms of expression may consist of 
comparisons, discussions, imaginary letters, repro- 
ductions, imaginary dialogues, etc. 

BOOKS. 

Plutarch for Boys and Girls. — Eldridge 
Brookes. 

Herodotus for Boys and Girls. — Eldridge 
Brookes. 

Historic Boys. — Eldridge Brookes. 

Historic Girls. —Eldridge Brookes. 

Abbott's Biographies. 

All of Church's Works. 

Three Children of Galilee. — John Gor- 
don. 

The Court of King Arthur. — Frost. 

King Arthur and Knights of the Round 
Table. 

Christmas Tales.^ — Harrison Morris. 

Tales from the Poets. — Harrison Morris. 

Around the World. — Harrison Morris. 

Tales from the old Dramatists. — Charles 
Morris. Four volumes. 

Tales Historical. — Charles Morris. Six 
volumes. May refer pupils to Half 
Hours with Best Foreign Authors, 
and Half Hours with Best American 



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Authors. — Charles Morris. Eight 
volumes. 

Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. 

Hawthorne's Wonder Book. 

Lodge's Ballads and Lyrics. 

Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare. 

Miss Alcott's Books. 

Miss Buckley's Books. 

Books of Miss Wiggins. 

Books of Oliver Optic. 

Books of Eggleston. 

Tom Sawyer. — Twain. 

Scott's Ivanhoe. 

Scott's Ouentin Durward. 

Scott's Poems. 

Hero Tales from American History. — 
Roosevelt & Lodge. 

Higginson's Young Folks Book of 
American Explorers. 

Parkman's Works. 

Leather Stocking Tales. — Cooper. 

St. Nicholas. 

Charles Skinner's Myths and Legends 
ot our own Land. 

The Making of New England. — Drake. 

Effingham Maynard's Historical Read- 
ings. 

Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion. 

Kennedy's Rob of the Bowl. 

Thayer's Farmer Boy. 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. I 9 

Little Classics. (Teacher's selections.) 



Seventh and Eighth Grades, 

(abridged.) 



Note: Specialized work "may be ^iveii in 
Longfellow, Tennyson, Holmes, etc. 

Read entirely Evangeline. 
Read entirely Enoch Arden. 
Interpret and read The Princess. 
Read Snowbound. 
Arnold's Sorhab and R'lstun. 

MODERN LIFE. 

Specialized center: America. Talks by the 
teacher on the religious notions, social and politi 
cal life of the sixteenth century in Englandand on 
the continent. 

I. The great men and women of the period; 
Marie Stuart, Elizabeth, Shakespeare, 
Raleigh, Sidney, Bacon, Spenser. 

See Journeys to the Homes of Great 

Authors. 
Tell and read selections from Schiller's 

Marie Stuart. 
Read Selections from Kenilworth. 
Read Selections from Westward Ho. — 

Kinorslev. 



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Read from the Rise of the Dutch Re- 
public, especially Portraits of Wil- 
liam of Orange, Charles V, Philip 
II, also Siege of Antwerp and bridg- 
ing of the Scheldt and Spanish 
Armada. 

2. Review in full biography of Columbus, 

and compare his motives of discovery 

with those of Drake, Cortez, Pizarro. 

Interpret and read Tennyson's Columbus. 



33 Review in full colonial life and compare 
cities and palaces of Europe and Eng- 
land with American homes and cities. 

4. Review Washington's Revolutionary 

career. 
Read the following literature on the 

epoch: 
Webster's Bunker Hill orations. 
Selections from Burke's Speeches on 

America. 
Review all literature given in course on 

this epoch. 

5. Washington once more. 

A typical American. 

A full discussion of his motives, bravery 

and democratic spirit. 
He presides over the great convention. 
He is made president of the United 



STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 2 1 

States. 

See Irving & Lodge's Life of Wash- 
ington. 

Read his Farewell Address. See Old 
South Leaflets. 

Read Selections from the great debates 
in the convention. Found in emi- 
nent statesman series. Hamilton, 
Morris, Madison, Jefferson. 

Readings from Madison's Journal m Old 
South Leaflets. 

6. Story of Madison. 

See Lord's Beacon Lights for Hamilton 

7. Story of Madison. 

8. Stor}^ of J(^fferson. 

Follow Eminent Statesman Series for 
biographical work. 

q. Biography of Lincoln. 

Literature on the period. 

Read speech of Wendell Phillips on 
John Brown. 

Read Character and Heroic Character. 
— Whipple. 

Read Webster's Reply to Hayne. 

Read selections from Everett's speeches. 

Read selections from Beecher's ser- 
mons in regard to Slavery. 

Read Lowell's Present Crisis. 



22 STUDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH. 

Read Lincoln's Speeches and Inaugura 
Address. 

Interpret and read Lowell's Ode to Wil- 
liam Loyd Garrison. 

Read Selections from Whittier's Voices 
of Freedom. 

BOOKS. 

Scott's Novels. 

Mark Twain's Books. 

Thayer's Farmer Boy, Washington. 

All books indicated in Fifth and Sixth 

Grade Reading course. 
Eminent Statesmen Series. 
Story of the States Series. 
Pilgrims and Puritans — Moore. 
All" of Ebers' Novels. 
American and English Poets. 
Scribner's for 1887, (contains story of a 

Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago.) 

Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies. 

Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion. 

Kennedy's Rob of the Bowl. 

Historical Classical Readings. — Effing 
ham Maynard's Series. 

Irving's Columbus. 
History of New York. 
Irving's Sketch Book. 
Irving's Alhambra. 

Many of the Heroes of the Nation 
Series. 



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The Mill on the Floss. 

Dickens' David Copperfield. 

Many of the Stories of the Nation 
Series. 

The Fair God. — Wallace. 

Ben Hur. — Wallace. 

Prince of India. — Wallace. 

The Wandering Jew. 

Lord's Beacon Lights of History. 

Mary D. Clark's Girlhood of Shakes- 
peare's FL^roines. 

Burroughs' Works. 

Thoreau's Walden. 

Mabie's Under the Tree, 



Books by which the teacher may give large 
portions of the work fairly well: 

A good general histor}/ — Barnes or 

Myers. 
Kingsley's Greek Heroes. (Expurgated.) 
Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare. 
Brookes' Homer. 
Abbott's Biographies. 
Morris' Tales of the Dramatists. 
American History Stories. 
American Poets. 
Selections from American orose 

writers. 
Classic Stories for Children. 



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Kingsley's Water Babies. 

A Manual of Greek Archaeology, 

CoUignon. 
Mediaeval Art. — Reber. 
Foundations of Literature. 



Inspiring books: 

Mabie's Nature and Culture. 
Mabie's Books and Culture. 
Stedman's Elements of Poetry. 
Leslie's Hours in a Library. 



Gems of restful nature painting from the 
best poets to suit the hour and the mood, should 
be given throughout the course. — See Morris' 
Where the Meadows Meet the Sea. 



Any book in the course may be obtained from 
A. C. McClurg, Chicago. 



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